November, 2021 - Rationale Magazine

28 Nov

A tribute to the ‘indefatigable’ Rodney Syme

09/09/2022
By Nick Carr
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This is an edited version of the tribute to Rodney Syme delivered during the RSA Webinar on 24 November 2021. It is an incred...

25 Nov

Law & Politics

New Religious Discrimination Bill will cause damage to Australian society that will be difficult to heal

09/09/2022
By Elenie Poulos
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Australia is not a particularly religious country. Australians have a reputation for being largely ambivalent about the place of religi...

24 Nov

Law & Politics

Third time lucky for the Religious Discrimination Bill?

09/09/2022
By Luke Beck
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The Morrison government has finally provided details of the third draft of its Religious Discrimination Bill. This prompted heated d...

23 Nov

Letters to the Editor

No sin, no Christianity

Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. Dear Edi...

20 Nov

Law & Politics

Conscientious objection in Australia: A comparison between VAD and abortion

09/09/2022
By Ronli Sifris
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Conscientious objection is defined, according to Peter Butt, as "an objection to partaking in certain forms of behaviour … on moral gro...

19 Nov

Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson.

17 Nov

Law & Politics

Rodney’s final stand on voluntary assisted dying

09/09/2022
By Si Gladman
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Even in his final months of life, Dr Rodney Syme was doing all he could to help make voluntary assisted dying accessible for all Austra...

14 Nov

Science & Health

The science everyone needs to know about climate change

With the United Nations' climate conference in Scotland turning a spotlight on climate change policies and the impact of global warming...

11 Nov

Law & Politics

In defence of democracy

09/09/2022
By Carrick Ryan
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In 1989, as the Soviet Union crumbled, historian Francis Fukuyama now infamously proclaimed "the end of history". His reasoning was tha...

08 Nov

Ethics & Religion

When rationalist Anne Lennon exposed church’s selling of ‘indulgences’

09/09/2022
By Peter Adamson
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In the Roman Catholic Church, a 'novena' is a devotion in which special prayers or services are repeated on nine consecutive days. I...

05 Nov

History

Tolstoy’s last years

04/08/2022
By Reg Naulty
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Tolstoy’s death in 1910 occurred just seven years before the Russian Revolution. His last two essays What’s To Be Done? and I Cannot B...

03 Nov

History

How do you spot a witch? A notorious 15th-century book gave instructions

04/08/2022
By Melissa Chim
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Books have always had the power to cast a spell over their readers – figuratively. But one book that was quite popular from the 15th to...

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